Joe Walsh Former Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh Will Run Against Trump in the Republican PrimaryEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyIn an appearance on ABC’s This Week Sunday, former Illinois congressman Joe Walsh announced that he will launch a long-shot run against President Donald Trump, joining ex-Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld
Jurassic Park What Is This Sh*t, Anyway?Esquire - By Charles P. Pierce(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) Torres’ ordeal began in August 2018, when he was pulled over and arrested on suspicion of driving
Seth Moulton Seth Moulton's 2020 Campaign Was a Combination of Pluck and Utter ObliviousnessEsquire - By Charles P. PierceAh, Seth, we hardly knew ye. Well, we did, actually. You were the guy who was so ambitious as a rookie congressman that you tried to engineer a conservative Democratic coup against Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
David Koch The Koch Money Was a Primary Vector for the Prion Disease That's Infected the Republican PartyEsquire - By Charles P. PierceFair warning. I am about to speak very ill of the dead. David Koch went to his eternal barbecue spit on Friday. Except for his surviving brother, Charles, no man had a worse effect on American politics
David Koch Don't Lose Sight of President Good Brain's Insane F*cking WeekEsquire - By Jack HolmesFriday will be a banner day for Very Civil People, who will insist you say nice things about the billionaire guy who funded denial of the climate crisis for decades in order to stuff even more cash in
Glen Casada Montana Is the Next New Jersey Is the Next Flint Is the Next...Esquire - By Charles P. PierceBeing our semi-regular weekly survey of what's goin' down in the several states where, as you know, the real work of governmentin' gets done and where it's dark, too dark to see. We begin in Montana, we
Tom Cotton Tom Cotton Needs to Be Watched CarefullyEsquire - By Charles P. PierceThere's a new feelgood summer movie just released: Cotton Comes To Denmark. Over at Talking Points Memo, Summer Concepcion points us to this account from talkbusiness.net in which Senator Tom Cotton, bobble-throated
Amazon Rainforest These Photos Show the Devastation Taking Place in the Amazon RainforestEsquire - By The Esquire EditorsA massive blaze in Brazil's Amazon rainforest is quickly gaining international attention. The Brazilian jungle, often referred to as the lungs of the entire planet (due to the significant amount of oxygen
Hillary Clinton Old Ratf*ckers Never Die. They Adapt and Weaponize New Technologies.Esquire - By Charles P. PierceOne of the longest-lasting symptoms of the prion disease that has destroyed the higher functions of the Republican Party ever since Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkeybrains of movement conservatism
Play buttonJay Inslee Jay Inslee Made the Case That the Climate Crisis Is Lurking Beneath Every Other IssueEsquire - By Charles P. PierceWhen a presidential candidate decides to stop being a presidential candidate anymore, saying that the departed "brought important things to the conversation" is the political equivalent of the people stand
Native Americans Elizabeth Warren Was Well-Received at the Native American Presidential Forum. Mark Charles Was the Main Event.Esquire - By Julian Brave NoiseCat“The Declaration of Independence refers to Natives as ‘merciless Indian savages,’” said Mark Charles, the only Native American running for president, as he neared the climax of his stump speech at the
Migrant Children The Law Says You Must Treat Children Humanely. That's Not a 'Loophole.'Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIn 1985, a 15-year old girl named Jenny Lisette Flores tried to enter the United States in order to move in with her aunt. She was apprehended by immigration authorities. While in custody, she was subject
trump news update The President Is Currently Serving Up Several Flavors of Batshit on TwitterEsquire - By Jack HolmesAnd thus begins another day where we as a nation throw up our hands in the face of overwhelming evidence that the president is completely insane. Sure, the Secretary of Energy—the man in charge of safeguarding
Wayne Allyn Root The President* Has Gone as Soft as Church MusicEsquire - By Charles P. PierceFor the love of god, you should pardon the expression, somebody get the damn net. “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel
Greenland Trump's Greenland Thing Isn't Funny AnymoreEsquire - By Charles P. PierceRecently, while reading Noah Feldman's lucid study, The Three Lives of James Madison, I happened to be going through the long section regarding how Madison, as Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State, was
Jewish Culture Trump Bumbled His Way Into a Blood-Drenched Historical Slander Because His Brain Is CloggedEsquire - By Charles P. Pierce"But these two, Omar and Tlaib. I think it would be a very bad thing for Israel. I would not cut off aid to Israel. I can't even believe that we are having this conversation. Where has the Democratic gone?
NRA The NRA Doesn't Scare Anyone Right Now—Except the President*Esquire - By Charles P. PierceYou say you want a cultural shift. How about this? You still can't spell NASCAR without N-R-A, but the NRA is going to have to get along without one of NASCAR's trademark brands. From the Washington Post:
Stephen Miller Stephen Miller's Plan Is Coming to FruitionEsquire - By Charles P. PierceOver the weekend, both The New York Times and the Washington Post ran lengthy profiles of Stephen Miller, the chief button man behind the murder of America's image in the world. Some of the passages, in
Mike Pompeo A New Look at Mike Pompeo's Career Reminds Us Trump Is an Inevitable Product of Republican PoliticsEsquire - By Jack HolmesDonald Trump's tenure has been defined by chaos and upheaval in so many ways, not least when it comes to personnel turnover. This feature was best captured in a New Yorker cartoon from two years ago (!)
Sheldon Whitehouse At Least One Democratic Senator Is Saying Outright That the Emperor Has No ClothesEsquire - By Charles P. PierceUnlike several of his colleagues, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, has managed to find a way to keep busy without the expense and bother of running for president. Besides a gig on
Native Americans Native Issues Are Finally Getting the Spotlight They Deserve on 2020 CampaignsEsquire - By Charles P. PierceFrank LaMere was one of the strongest activists you never heard of. I met him during one of my reporting trips out to Nebraska regarding our old friend the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning
Water Someone Should Really Think About Doing Something About New Jersey's Water ProblemEsquire - By Charles P. PierceI hope you won't mind if we talk about water again, because it's something of interest here in the shebeen, and not just because it's how we make the whiskey last longer, either. We now learn that Newark
News Media Donald Trump's Campaign Is Becoming an Exercise in Public InsanityEsquire - By Charles P. PierceIf the economy goes south, as a lot of people are warning us it will, then it's comforting to know that the president* already is only a baby step away from blaming the Gnomes Of Zurich. From The New Times:
Joe Kennedy Massachusetts Democratic Politics Lost Its Mind Over the WeekendEsquire - By Charles P. PierceCOMMONWEALTH—A point of personal privilege—Democratic politics here in the Commonwealth (God save it!) lost a bit of its mind over the weekend. The New York Times tells us that Rep. Joe Kennedy, who happens
News Shell Workers Were Reportedly Told They Had to Attend a Trump Speech in Order to Get PaidEsquire - By Gabrielle BruneyWorkers at a Shell plant were reportedly forced to attend an appearance by visiting speaker Donald Trump earlier this week, or take an unpaid day off. And according to The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers
Ebola It's Going to Take Decades to Wring the Crazy Out of the Fabric of This CountryEsquire - By Charles P. Pierce(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) It's been a while since we checked in on Matt Shea, the crusader monk of the Washington state legislature.
Native Americans The President* Has Slurs for Native Peoples. Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan.Esquire - By Charles P. PierceIn front of his usual backdrop of grinning suckers Thursday night, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago trotted out his greatest hits to the roaring cackles of a few thousand of his fans. Inevitably, he got around
Abortion Here's Exhibit 23,513,553 That Wearing a Red Dress Shirt Proves You're InsaneEsquire - By Jack HolmesScience tells us that there is no surer sign of insanity than wearing a red dress shirt with a suit and tie. It is simply a psycho move. There is no tie that's going to look good with the red dress shirt.
Democracy The Laboratories of Democracy Are Cooking Up Crazy All the TimeEsquire - By Charles P. PierceIt can't be emphasized more strongly. The laboratories of democracy keep cooking even after our semi-regular weekly survey concludes. For example, in Kentucky, the lieutenant governor is suing the governor,
